[27 (14) January 1918]

signed by:
a) Shlichter
information
b) [representative of the] city food administration*
[item] 42, at
[the] hour of the day

Located
Located
in transit
wagons
Arrived
at a distance of
— " —
— " —
grain
100–300
300–1000
by such-and-such
a date
today
over
versts
100 versts
from Petersburg
from Petersburg

The documents printed below were written by Lenin in response to an official communication he received from the Regional Council of the Food-Economic Committee of Western Siberia and the Urals, reporting that the Omsk Railway was sabotaging the dispatch of food supplies to the west and that Vikzhel was not providing assistance in dispatching more than a thousand wagons that had already been loaded.

From the words: "signed by" — added above, apparently after the record form was written. — Ed.

LENIN COLLECTION

The communication to Lenin was delivered by delegates from the Ural Soviets who arrived on a grain transport train.

The first document, representing a note to the secretary, is written on the very communication from the Food-Economic Committee itself; the second — a note to the Commissariat of Food — is on a small letterhead of the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. Both documents were written, in all probability, simultaneously, that is, on 28 (15) January 1918.

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